Most people use only a fraction of the potential processing power of
their computer. Many use a Screen Saver program making their computer
an expensive room heater 95% of the time. We offer you the ability not
only to warm your room but also to possibly find a place in history.
The well-known project
GIMPS conducts a search for huge Mersenne prime numbers. By joining
our project, you will greatly increase the probability of being entered
in the record books by finding a unique Fermat Number factor. We think
that you will want to take advantage of our particular mathematics
project: "Search for Fermat Number Divisors."

Fermat numbers have a very beautiful mathematical form: 22m+1.
The first 5 numbers F0=3, F1=5, F2=17,
F3=257, F4=65537 are all prime. Having discovered
this fact, Pierre de Fermat assumed that all numbers of this type were
prime. But he was wrong. In 1732 after almost a century, Euler
elegantly proved that F5 had a factor: 641 and was therefore
not prime. That year can be considered as the beginning of the search
for divisors of other Fermat numbers. For 3 centuries more than 200
divisors were found. It has been proven that all divisors of Fermat
numbers have the simple form: k.2n+1, where n >
m+2. This corollary is being used for discovery of Fermat number
divisors. Because of the scarcity and difficulty of finding these
divisors, the person who discovers a new factor takes his place in
history. Wilfrid Keller keeps a current, detailed account of all known Fermat
factors and their discoverers.
Professor Richard E. Crandall carried on a search project for
factors of small Fermat numbers.

If you have some new results to submit to this search, please email the .LOG
file to me.